MR H. J. CANTON AND DUST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 101, 28 March 1929, Page 8

MR H. J. CANTON AND DUST.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Mr H. J. Canton is a bit of an eyesore to my patience. Take his last night’s letter in the “Standard”: He started off about the town’s dust infliction, and, in his characteristic way, promptly became flexuous and quickly displayed the confusion of expression that denotes want of clarity of thought. He, no doubt, finds his proclaimed belief in fatalism expedient ; but it is fatuous as a dust sprinkler, and destitute of all urge for the welfare of the town in a councillor. Colloquially, it is -an admission of having dropped his punch, and when that takes place the obvious thing to do is to pull out. . , Mr Canton maladroitly maintained that bitumen is the only remedy for our pestiferous dust scourge, but,is uninformative as to the curious discrimination shown in the bituminising of streets. For instance : Property owners in Bourke, Campbell, Lombard, Taonui, Waldegrave and many other streets were paying rates and taxes years before a considerable of Linton Street amounted to anything more than a passage-way across the paddock where Plague Creek meandered Yet Linton Street now has its bitumen, while the other tho roughfares still have their dust. How does that sort of thing come about, Mr Canton? Deleting all your platitudinous side-issues, do you—as a councillor or private citizen—consider a few mo-tor-car springs of more importance than the comfort and health of hundreds of men, women and children? If not, why do you subscribe to this primitive pot-hole remedy of scattering dried mullock over the streets. I am, etC " CLARENCE RIVER. Palmerston North, March 2/, 1929.